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Hispanic Leaders Condemn Romney for Criticizing Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Griselda Nevárez recently wrote about a recent television add that aired in Michigan, in which Mitt Romney criticized Rick Santorum for voting to confirm Puerto Rican Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the...
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Sotomayor: There’s no part of my heart that’s not from Puerto Rico
Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, said on the weekend here that there’s no part of my heart that’s not from Puerto Rico and encouraged all Latinos to pursue their...
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The Bronx, the Bench and the Life in Between
‘My Beloved World,’ a Memoir by Sonia Sotomayor, is reviewed by Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times. That’s what Sonia Sotomayor told a friend after her first day in open court as a new federal...
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Dolores Prida, Latina ‘Dear Abby,’ dies
For nearly 15 years, Dolores Prida was the Latina answer to “Dear Abby.” The Cuban-born writer penned columns — as she once put it – with “Latin-style tongue-in-cheek advice for the lovelorn, the...
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NYT Obituary: Dolores Prida, Columnist and Playwright, Dies at 69
This obituary by BRUCE WEBER appeared in The New York Times. Dolores Prida, a Cuban-born journalist and playwright who wrote candidly and wittily about local and national politics, romance and other...
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New York Remembers Writer Dolores Prida
On stage, in the opinion pages and in the advice column, Dolores Prida chronicled the lives of Hispanics like no other and illuminated a community to both outsiders and Latinos themselves, Fox News...
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10 Questions for Sonia Sotomayor
Belinda Luscombe of Time asks Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor 10 questions to mark the publication o fher memoir, asks Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor 10 questions to mark the publication...
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Sotomayor’s lonely journey to the bench
Some of the most revealing moments in Sonia Sotomayor’s stirring new memoir, My Beloved World, come early in the book’s 300-plus pages, Héctor Tobar writes in this review of the book for The...
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Sonia Sotomayor Draws Hundreds in Puerto Rico for Book Tour
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Puerto Rico to present her new memoir on Tuesday, drawing hundreds of fans in her parents’ homeland. The visit by the first Latina Supreme Court...
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Puerto Rico’s 100 Days: Pension Reform, Public Pessimism and Sotomayor
In Politics 365, Jean Vidal focuses on current concerns in Puerto Rico, including pension reform, public pessimism, and the challenges that Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro García Padilla faces in his...
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Edwidge Danticat and Justice Sonia Sotomayor Receive Yale Honorary Degrees
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and writer Edwidge Danticat, who is also a spokeswoman for Haitian cultural and social justice issues, were among those who received honorary degrees from Yale...
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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Calls for Diversity of Ideas
The justice entertains Lisner crowd with anecdotes, life lessons from her book, “My Beloved World,” as James Irwin reports in this article for George Washington University Today. The events of Sonia...
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Fox Contributor Attacks Sotomayor’s ‘Allegiance’ To The United States Because...
Laura Ingraham, a conservative radio host and frequent guest host for Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show, suggested on her radio show Tuesday that Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s “immigrant family background”...
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New Book—Joan Biskupic’s “Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the...
Although I cannot say that I appreciate references to salsa-dancing when speaking of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, I will withhold comments until I read the book. Perhaps the analogy makes more sense in...
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Happy Birthday to Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor!
We join the American Latino Museum in wishing a very happy birthday to Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor. A Nuyorican from the Bronx, Sonia Sotomayor was raised by working class, Puerto Rico-born...
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In Dissents, Sonia Sotomayor Takes On the Criminal Justice System
Adam Liptak (The New York Times) underlines the directness of (Puerto Rican) Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s pertinent dissents (eight), calling her an “increasingly skeptical student of the criminal...
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Hispanic Heritage Foundation to Honor Sonia Sotomayor and Junot Díaz
Patricia Guadalupe (NBC News Latino) reports that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be honored with the Leadership Award at the 29th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards ceremony to take...
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Sonia Sotomayor to publish books for young readers
AP reports that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is planning to publish write three books for young readers. According to Penguin Young Readers, the magistrate will adapt her memoir My Beloved...
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Sonia Sotomayor’s Innovative Game
Adriana Cataño (Remezcla) writes about Puerto Rican Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the development of a game for young English learners—Do I Have a Right? [¿Tengo algún derecho?]—to help...
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Life story fuels Justice Sotomayor’s passion for education
Mark Walsh (Education Week) reports on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s interest in inspiring young people, promoting education, and her work with iCivics: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia...
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